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Book Production for Editors

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Editors need to be clear about the production process to understand the implications of their decisions. With this knowledge and understanding, costly mistakes and prolonged schedules can be avoided, saving the company much time and effort. This two-day course will provide a big injection of confidence for all editors.

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Type Course Duration 2 Days
Method / place Contact course provider Classes
Suitability Editors with at least six months' experience.
Course objectives Editors need to be clear about the production process to understand the implications of their decisions. With this knowledge and understanding, costly mistakes and prolonged schedules can be avoided, saving the company much time and effort. This two-day course will provide a big injection of confidence for all editors.
Price £689 + VAT
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Course programme

Book Production for Editors
BOOK PRODUCTION FOR EDITORS Programme
Day one
  • Key stages of book production
    • How books are produced; the role of the production department
  • Schedules and budgets
  • Book design
  • Page layout
    • Typefaces, type sizes and typesetting standards
    • Calculating pagination
    • Typesetting and DTP systems
  • Graphics handling - monochrome and colour
    • Image types
    • File naming conventions
    • Hard copy graphics
    • Digital files types
    • Digital photography: standards, checking and manipulation
  • The proofing and correction cycle
    • Proof types (galley, page, PDFs)
    • Proofing methods
    • The correction process
    • Proofing systems
  • Principles of colour
    • Colour additive and subtractive
    • Special colours
    • Pantone
    • Four colour process
    • Measurement of colour
    • Dealing with colour issues
  • Introduction to case study
 
Day two
  • Digital illustrations and storage in book publishing
    • File formats
    • Archiving
    • Data types and compression
    • Re-use
    • Updating
    • Asset and content management systems
  • Pre-press operations
  • Case study preparation
  • Conventional printing techniques and methods for books
  • On demand and digital printing techniques - for low run books, cost and quality comparisons
  • Binding and finishing operations
    • Processes for books
    • Folding, gathering, limp binding, wirestitching, case binding
    • Varnishing, laminating
  • Materials for book production
    • Paper for text and covers
    • Characteristics and manufacturing
    • Calculating paper sizes and weights
  • Quality control - origination, printing and binding faults
  • Case study presentations
  • Likely technical developments in production technologies
 
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Jeremy Mills is Head of Business Development at Catalysts Limited, an electronic publishing and communications company which has worked for some of Europe's largest publishers and specialist legal and accountancy companies. Until 2001 he was Sales and Marketing Director of the Charlesworth Group, one of Europe's leading journal printers, and was responsible for the development of Charlesworth Electronic Publishing Services (CElect), providing electronic solutions via CD-ROM and the Internet. Prior to joining Charlesworth in 1990, Jeremy completed an MBA at Durham University. In recent years Jeremy has given a number of talks and written articles regarding design and production of journals.


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For more than twenty-five years, the Publishing Training Centre at Book House (PTC) has provided cost-effective and high quality training for publishers in the UK and overseas. Previously known as Book House Training Centre, it's an educational charity dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in publishing.

Although we're best known for our core editorial skills training for book and journal publishers, we actually offer about 70 open courses, covering the complete range of publishing skills. Training in IT and electronic publishing is also now a key part of our portfolio.


In recent years, we have seen a huge growth in demand for in company training and consultancy and for our distance learning programmes in Basic Proofreading, Copy-Editing, Effective Copywriting, Picture Research and Editorial Project Management.

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